Roman Letters

Letter 917: Libanius presses the Patriarch again to help Ammonilla.

Libanius→Patriarch, correspondent of Libanius|c. 390 AD|Libanius|From Antioch|AI-assisted
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The force of the letter lies in its brevity: a third appeal should not be necessary.
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This is the second letter that comes on Ammonilla's behalf, since the first accomplished nothing because the people mistreating the woman have power. So, out of sympathy with the earlier letter and respect for this one, make sure I do not need to ask for a third.

AI-assisted translation - This translation was produced with AI assistance and has not been peer-reviewed. See the 19th-century translation or original Latin/Greek below for scholarly use.

Latin / Greek Original

Ὑπὲρ Ἀμμωνίλλης δεύτερα ταῦτα ἔρχεται γράμματα τῶν προτέρων οὐδὲν δυνηθέντων διὰ τὸ δύνασθαι τοὺς κακῶς ποιοῦντας τὴν ἄνθρωπον. τῇ τε οὖν προτέρᾳ συναχθόμενος ἐπιστολῇ καὶ τήνδε τιμῶν ποίησον ἡμᾶς μὴ δεηθῆναι τρίτης.

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Revision history

  1. 2026-05-27v2.2.34-import

    Initial corpus import from modern libanius foerster vol11 batch4 managed agents v1.

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